Charles Mason Remey Papers,1940-1949.
Collection Number: 3395
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University
Library
Title:
Charles Mason Remey papers,
1940-1949.
Collection Number:
3395
Creator:
Remey, Charles Mason,
Quantity:
1.6 cubic ft.; c. 160
volumes
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, diaries, photographs, printed materials, and manuscripts.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library
Abstract:
194 bound volumes of diary, letters, and other writings of Charles Mason Remey.
Subjects include the Bahʹa'ʹi faith, architecture, his family, and daily events. Volumes include text,
clippings, photographs, and programs. Includes, c. 160 volumes of reminiscences, letters, journals,
opened in March 1995 after fifty years of restriction
Language:
Collection material in English
Charles Mason Remey was an architect, author, and lecturer. Born in Burlington, Iowa
on May 15, 1874, he studied at Cornell University and at ʹEcole des Beaux Arts,
Paris. He was an architecture instructor, 1906-1908, and Assistant Professor of
Architecture at George Washington University, Washington, D.C., 1908-1910. He was
appointed to design the Bahʹa'ʹi Temple to be built upon Mount Carmel; was a Patron
in Perpetuity of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; author of books on
the Bahʹa'ʹi faith and temples, travel in the Orient, and architecture; and founder
and organizer of the movement to build the National Church and Shrine of the United
States of America in Washington, D.C., to carry out George Washington's intent to
build a nonsectarian national shrine for national purposes such as public prayer,
thanksgiving, funeral orations, etc.
c. 194 bound volumes of diary, letters, and other writings of Charles Mason Remey.
Subjects include the Bahʹa'ʹi faith, architecture, his family, and daily events.
Volumes include text, clippings, photographs, and programs. Includes, c. 160 volumes of
reminiscences, letters, journals, opened in March 1995 after fifty years of
restriction.
Names:
Remey, Charles Mason,
George Washington University.
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
National Church and Shrine of the United States
of America.
Subjects:
Religion.
Architecture.
Bahʹa'ʹi.
Architects.
Form and Genre Terms:
Diaries.
Photographs.
Cite As:
Charles Mason Remey papers, #3395. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
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